GM has robotaxi technology but no business. Tesla has a business but the tech doesn't work. This issue, along with competition and the DMV's role are discussed.
Cruise cars used to be a common sight on the streets of San Francisco. This one took me for a ride,, absorbing some of the Cruise team to work on in-car technologies like the previously unrelated Super Cruise driver assist system. Cruise had been the clear #2 robotaxi project until it suspended operations in 2023 after losing its California permits due to a severe incident and cover-up, and GM and spent and was continuing to spend many billions on it.
Of course, the Cruise system uses a much more expensive and sophisticated sensor suite, focused on LIDAR, a sensor that Elon Musk has called a “crutch.” For reasons of ego, if nothing else, Tesla would strongly resist such a switch.
This is not going to happen, of course. Tesla is very set on its path. It’s a shame if Cruise’s work just vanishes into the ether. More than a shame, as it leaves the US with one less player. Waymo is going strong, Zoox is just getting ready to go out, and Motional, also owned by a car company, has shown troubling signals. Waymo will be busy for some time in the USA, and in fact with less competition may expand more slowly.
While it’s hardly a settled question over whether the DMV’s order is solely or even significantly responsible for the end of Cruise, it should be considered. It was not the intention of the DMV to end Cruise, of course. Their mission is to improve road safety. Even if Cruise’s claim of superior safety was false, they were on a path to providing major improvements to road safety over time.
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